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4 days ago · Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term are disputed.
2 days ago · The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments gave way to sovereign states in a process often marred by violence, political turmoil, widespread unrest, and organised revolts.
Apr 27, 2024 · (Anti-)Colonialisms and its Afterlives: Renewing and Rethinking the Debate - According to some scholars, the various traditions of criticizing colonial modernity in the human sciences (rather than literary criticism)—postcolonial, decolonial, settler colonial, and anti-imperial, are now spent.
3 days ago · Essentially anti-colonial, it was supplemented by visions of independent, economic development with a secular, democratic, republican, and civil-libertarian political structure. After the 1930s, the movement took on a strong socialist orientation.
May 15, 2024 · The Wretched of the Earth is an anti-colonial manifesto, a case study of violence, and a history of the struggle for decolonisation written through the lens of the Algerian war for independence ...
1 day ago · Distinguishing postcolonialism from anticolonialism requires an analysis of the methods and conditions of colonization. Colonialism, in its classical form, is commonly understood as the conquest, domination, subjugation, and exploitation of primarily non-Western people and lands by European powers.
May 13, 2024 · Decolonization of knowledge (also epistemic or epistemological decolonization) is a concept advanced in decolonial scholarship that critiques the perceived universality of what the decolonial scholars refer to as the hegemonic Western knowledge system.
